Letters to the Editor, Jan. 30

Letters to the Editor, Jan. 30

CITY LACKING Coun. Druh Farrell says, “Right now, we don’t have a fine, and we should be looking at a fine. Too frequently we wait for a chinook to do the work.” I think the same should apply to the city! The residential roads are never cleared. The walkway paralleling 52 St. gets cleared once in a while but they never clear the access walks to it. Before Farrell starts fining us, she should make sure they are doing their job and clearing city-owned property.J. WARREN SAFFEL(Bang on.)

SAVE SOME MONEY If three members of city council and the mayor are capable of going to Halifax (4.5-hour flight), attending this latest and greatest and apparently much needed conference, then jumping back on the bird to Calgary, and after all that travel can tell the rest of council in five minutes what they learned, why not send just one councillor with a pad and paper? He (or she) could take notes and upon their return tell the rest of them what they learned or, at very least, what a great lunch they had on the taxpayer. This same bunch that were re-elected haven’t met a dollar of other peoples’ money that they don’t want to spend.ALAN MORGAN(They just don’t get it. Brutal.)

SENTENCE A JOKE Re: Brothers Who Raped Teen Handed Lengthy Prison Terms. Twelve years is an absolute joke. This pair of cowardly, vicious animals should have been handed at least 25 years. Lucky for them, they didn’t rape that poor, defenceless girl down in Texas, where hanging judges are countless.DONALD K. MUNROE(Makes the blood boil, doesn’t it?)

BUILDING BRIDGES Your response to Mr. Ford’s letter: “To be fair, it’s a bridge into Michigan from Canada.” When did Michigan become a sovereign independent country?MICHAEL THEODORE(Huh? Who said it was? We were responding to the “bridge in Michigan” comment and clarifying its location.)

EASTERN BIAS I watched the NHL skills competition on Sportsnet. It was fun. After each competition, the TV crew interviewed the winner, at least most of the time. In the puck-handling relay, Johnny Gaudreau had to go first and still won rather easily (24.65 sec) but who did they choose to interview? Erik Karlsson, who couldn’t even do the drill, had to cheat by picking the puck up and then still finished second last (37.42 sec). Are things so bad down east that Sportsnet feels compelled to remind people in Ottawa they actually have an NHL team that plays their home games there, or at least close to there? No wonder people out west think our “national” broadcast networks always think if we cover Ontario, that’s good enough for the rest of Canada.LEN RING(We wouldn’t put much into anything that happened at the all-star game.)

PARENTS SHARE BLAME Re: Rapist Brothers. So, Mom and Dad are upset that their kids are going to jail. Are you kidding me! Both parents should be sent to jail along with them. Was the father not at home when these monsters were committing their crime? If the defence decides to appeal, I hope the Crown will re-appeal this sentence, these two need to stay in jail much longer. There seems to be a huge miscarriage of justice here. For those who say that I am racist, my mom was Indigenous and I was taught right from wrong. Obviously, these parents have no idea.CAROL MILLER(The brothers showed no mercy.)

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